CONTOUR (Contura)

A Novel of the Body, and the Stories Skin Remembers

A Japanese light novel in five parts and fifty chapters, woven around Contura — the iOS app that turns body measurement into story. Behind every number waits a story only the body can tell.

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Part I — Encountering the Contour

  1. Chapter 1. The Light She Left Behind
  2. Chapter 2. The Studio at Aoyama
  3. Chapter 3. The First Outline Sight
  4. Chapter 4. The Night of the Five Laws
  5. Chapter 5. One's Own Outline
  6. Chapter 6. The Core Called Sono Kiryū
  7. Chapter 7. The Story a Type Tells
  8. Chapter 8. The Fading of Freshness
  9. Chapter 9. The Goal Outline
  10. Chapter 10. The Reader's Name

Part II — Six Stories the Body Tells

  1. Chapter 11. Shoulders of the Retired Tiger
  2. Chapter 12. The Girl of Glasswork
  3. Chapter 13. The Back That Carries
  4. Chapter 14. The Gender in the Mirror
  5. Chapter 15. The Layering Called Age
  6. Chapter 16. The Twins' Waists
  7. Chapter 17. The Dancing Thighs
  8. Chapter 18. The Husband's Nape
  9. Chapter 19. The Read in an Instant
  10. Chapter 20. Six Stories, One Question

Part III — The Struggle Over the Contour

  1. Chapter 21. The Cold Light at Omotesandō
  2. Chapter 22. Numbers Save
  3. Chapter 23. The Stolen Outline
  4. Chapter 24. The Rival's Measuring
  5. Chapter 25. The Hollow Victory
  6. Chapter 26. Sono's Shield
  7. Chapter 27. Rui's Wound
  8. Chapter 28. Kurosawa's Judgment
  9. Chapter 29. The Choice of the Outline
  10. Chapter 30. The Chosen Path

Part IV — The Memory of Contura

  1. Chapter 31. The Name of Kuze
  2. Chapter 32. The Room of the Codex
  3. Chapter 33. Grandmother's Story
  4. Chapter 34. The Reader's Price
  5. Chapter 35. The Courage to Measure Oneself
  6. Chapter 36. Sono's Price
  7. Chapter 37. Rui's Return
  8. Chapter 38. Two Outlines
  9. Chapter 39. Sae's Voice
  10. Chapter 40. The Truth of Contura

Part V — And So, the Contour Speaks

  1. Chapter 41. The Widening Circle
  2. Chapter 42. The Next Generation of Readers
  3. Chapter 43. Wavering Freshness
  4. Chapter 44. The Light at Mirage
  5. Chapter 45. Kuze's Choice
  6. Chapter 46. The Greatest Measuring
  7. Chapter 47. Grandmother's Outline
  8. Chapter 48. The Last Insight
  9. Chapter 49. After the Festival of the Circle
  10. Chapter 50. The Body Tells Your Story